Blog Where Joy Lives: How UCLA Gymnastics Wins in the Gym and in Life If you have been on social media in the past few weeks, there is no doubt that you have seen a video of a floor routine by a Black gymnast on the UCLA gymnastics team named Nia Dennis. (If you haven’t, you should.) Dennis is…
Blog [Op-Ed] Lasso-ing the New Year By Megan Bartlett 2020 was undeniably a confusing year to be a sports fan. At the same time that we saw overzealous sport parents insisting on out of state travel for their young athletes despite the obvious health risks, we know that sport has never…
Blog We Coach Made 2020 a Year to Remember! With all of the unexpected challenges that 2020 brought, we wanted to send a note of gratitude to our amazing community. We are grateful to have been able to continue our work with partners, coalitions, and clients even if we greatly missed being in the…
Blog Nike and We Coach present A Guide for Coaching Girls [DOWNLOAD] Created by Nike and We Coach, with additional support from Youth Sport Trust this guide is intended to help equip all coaches with tools that can help make sport fun for girls. Through this project we aim to build off of the comprehensive picture of…
Blog Modeling Brave not Perfect By Christine Bright At We Coach, when we are training coaches to work specifically with girls, one of the strategies that we talk about is Brave not Perfect. The shortest version of this idea is that we ask girls to set aside some of the…
Blog WE STAND AGAINST RACISM We Coach stands with the Black Community against all acts of racism, police brutality, hatred and prejudice. Our work focuses on supporting coaches and young people, primarily those from marginalized communities. Because we know that no intervention is effective without understanding the trauma inflicted by…
Blog [Op-Ed] Every Young Person Needs Their Coach Right Now 2020 has been a year of fast, unpredictable change for all Americans and has served as a much needed time to reexamine many of our country’s systems and structures. This unique time offers the youth sports community an opportunity to reflect on the state of…